Art Movements Renaissance to Surrealism
Art Movements
Renaissance to Surrealism
Renaissance
BEGAN IN ITALY
Perspective
Accurate proportions
Lifelike detail
Shading
Light
Space
Mona Lisa
DaVinci
Pieta
Michelangelo
School of Athens
Raphael
Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride
Jan van Eyck
The Tower of Babel
Pieter Bruegel
Adoration of the Magi
Albrect Durer
Baroque
BEGAN IN ITALY
Grandeur
Elegance
Strong or contrasting colors
Large Scale
Ornate Decorations
Strong Emotion
Dramatic Lighting
The Calling of St. Matthew
Caravaggio
The Cardshark
Georges de la Tour
The Night Watch
Rembrant
Neoclassicism
BEGAN IN FRANCE
Influenced by ancient classical art
Decorative
Elaborate
Sharp contours
Orderly
Themes included Ancient Greece & Rome
The Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David
The Apotheosis of Homer
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Romanticism
BEGAN IN FRANCE
Occurred simultaneously with
Neoclassicism
More emotional and personal
Dramatic & exotic subjects
Loose free style of painting
Color flows from one form to the next
Has infinite depth
Officer of the Imperial Guard
Theodore Gericault
J.M.W. Turner
Melrose Abbey
Realism
BEGAN IN FRANCE
Accurate depiction of the times
About the splendors and miseries of life
Ordinary people
Depict life objectively and imparitally
Earth tones
The Stonebreakers
Gustave Courbet
The Gleaners
Jean-Francois Millet
Impressionism
BEGAN IN FRANCE
Pleasures of the modern city
Impression of the moment
Light of a particular moment
Natrualistic and realistic
Haymakers Resting
Camille Pissarro
Impression, Sunrise
Claude Monet
The Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Post-Impressionism
BEGAN IN FRANCE
Color and form expressed in new ways
Appear flatter
No concern about the reflection of light
More solid forms
Thicker paint
Heavy expressive lines
Basic shapes
Mont Sainte Victoire
Paul Cezanne
The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
Expressionism
BEGAN IN GERMANY
Distortion and disjointed
Thick brushstrokes
Strong colors
The Scream
Edvard Munch
Small Pleasures
Vasily Kandinsky
Cubism
BEGAN IN SPAIN (Pablo Picasso)
Showing objects from multiple points of view simultaneously
Viewed nature as cylinders, cones and spheres
Reservoir
Picasso
Dada
Rebel against everything
Anti-art
L.H.O.O.Q.
Marcel Duchamp
Surrealism
Paintings were the visualization of the dreams and thoughts
Revolt against intellectual art styles
Dream imagery
Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali
